GitLab18 days ago

Senior Backend Engineer, Architecture Engineering: Nonlinear Productivity

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Responsibilities

  • 01Identify sources of friction across GitLab's software development lifecycle and scope agentic solutions to address them, turning vague pain points into concrete, buildable proposals
  • 02Design and build reliable AI-powered systems that follow step-by-step workflows, use tools and safety checks, and correct errors before taking engineering action
  • 03Build and maintain evaluation tools that judge agent output on correctness, constraint compliance, and cost
  • 04Work across GitLab's codebase as each problem requires, going wherever the friction actually is rather than staying inside one service or product area
  • 05Apply distributed systems judgment to identify generated code that may fail under concurrency, at scale, or across self-managed, dedicated, and multi-tenant deployments, catching failures before they reach customers
  • 06Collaborate with the India-based group, sharing roadmaps, findings, and reusable agent tooling
  • 07Take ownership of a greenfield problem space from day one, helping shape a proven internal fix into a capability GitLab could offer customers externally

Requirements

  • 01Hands-on experience building agentic or large language model-based systems — multi-step orchestration, tool use, guardrails, and recovery patterns — and making them reliable in production
  • 02A track record of working autonomously in unfamiliar codebases, getting oriented quickly, and driving solutions through completion
  • 03Strong distributed systems knowledge, including coordination, consistency, idempotency, rate limiting, failure modes, and degradation under load
  • 04Proficiency in Go, Rust, or Python, in that order of team priority, and the ability to read and modify code in the other languages

What we offer

  • 01Remote-Global
  • 02Flexible Paid Time Off
  • 03Equity Compensation & Employee Stock Purchase Plan
  • 04Growth and Development Fund
  • 05Parental Leave
  • 06Benefits to support your health, finances, and well-being